A shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity.  

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful - but slowly going under. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational - as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche.